The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s

2844 The Hollow Years: Europe in the 1930's, by Eugen Weber (read 27 Feb 1996) I found this book unfocused and more intent on painting a picture by scraps of information than telling a straightforward chronological account . I guess I was expecting something more like D. W. Brogan's masterpiece--France Under the Republic--but this book was not like that at all. There were of course interesting things, and depressing things: like the aversion to bathing in French convents. However in general I thought the Church was depicted as quite vigorous in the 1930's. But France is a sad story, ending so dismally in 1940. ( )